GMD Poll: Top 10 Metal Albums of 1995

[Krow]

Someone should recommend me something from The Gathering. I see their albums for sale all the time but I've never grabbed anything. Doesn't have to be the gothic death doom album I see mentioned on MA.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i'm not really a fan but mandylion is generally regarded as their best.

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

How the fuck could anyone put that shitty Down record ahead of SoTLB??

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

i'm not really a fan but mandylion is generally regarded as their best.

The opening track is great, the title track is somewhat interesting...pretty boring otherwise...

 

[The Ozzman]

Down is gay. Super glad Pepper went back to CoC

 

[Burkhard]

Someone should recommend me something from The Gathering. I see their albums for sale all the time but I've never grabbed anything. Doesn't have to be the gothic death doom album I see mentioned on MA.

"Mandylion" was their first album I bought when it came out and it was my favourite until the release of "How to measure a planet?". The latter was my favourite The Gathering album for several years in spite of the fact that I found (and still find) the title track very hard to stomach, which is the reason why the first disc (it's a double album) got far more spins from me. "HTMAP" is a lot softer than "Mandylion" with "Liberty Bell" probably being the "heaviest" song on it. "Nighttime Birds" is more in the vein of "Mandylion", but I like it less. The albums after "HTMAP" mostly didn't do much for me. Well, I still liked "If_then_else" and I also find their live album "Sleepy Buildings - A Semi Acoustic Evening" quite enjoyable, though as far as live recordings are concerned, their DVD "A Sound Relieve" is my favourite. I haven't listened much to their music for at least a decade now, though I sort of re-discovered "Mandylion" about two years ago. I never cared about their early albums, because the "Beauty and the Beast"-stuff simply isn't my cup of tea.

Since I can't predict what you might like or if you might like any of their releases at all, first check out some songs of the albums mentioned (or even the entire albums) on youtube. (But you would have done this anyway, wouldn't you?)

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Down is gay. Super glad Pepper went back to CoC

NOLA >>> Everything CoC has done.

 

[CiG]

Nah.

 

[The Ozzman]

NOLA >>> Everything CoC has done.

That's a false

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

That's a false

incorrect.

You no likey De Profundis?

 

[crimsonfloyd]

A:
1. Dissection- Storm of the Light’s Bane
2. Mutiilation-Vampires of Black Imperial Blood
3. Blind Guardian- Imaginations From the Other Side
4. My Dying Bride- The Angel and the Dark River
5. Opeth- Orchid
6. Ulver- Bergtatt

A-:
7. Vlad Tepes/Belketre- March to the Black Holocaust
8. In the Woods- HEart of the Ages
9. Darkthrone- Panzerfaust
10. Suffocation- Pierced From Within (90%)

Honorable Mentions:
The Gathering- Mandylion
Skepticism- Stormcrowfleet
Theatre of Tragedy- Theatre of Tragedy
Death- Symbolic
Vital Remains- Into Cold Darkness
At the Gates- Slaughter of the Soul

 

[The Ozzman]

incorrect.

You no likey De Profundis?

I've honestly only heard that Vader album once. You must understand that there's so much shit I want to buy that I don't have the money for it all or the time to preview everything in a timely manner heh.

 

[no country for old wainds]

1) ved buens ende - written in waters
2) skepticism - stormcrowfleet
3) graveland - thousand swords
4) saint vitus - die healing
5) ras algethi - oneiricon: the white hypnotic
6) blut aus nord - ultima thulee
7) darkthrone - panzerfaust
8) ulver - bergtatt
9) deceased - the blueprints for madness
10) kataklysm - sorcery

number 1 was a clear winner with 2-4 making up the chasing pack. after that it's pretty close. never been sure how to place PANZERFAUST as it kinda feels like a collection of b-sides which happen to be better than nearly everything else they ever wrote.

if aeternus' DARK SORCERY was a full length it might've sneaked in there, couldn't really justify it at that length. nastrond's TOTESLAUT was next in line aside from that.

think we're just waiting on @Phylactery. not sure if @RadicalThrasher is playing, think @Elric of Omniboné has left again.

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

5) ras algethi - oneiricon: the white hypnotic
.

wut this tho?

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

who the fuck is elric of Omnibone?

the vocals mix on Panzerfaust is atrocious.

TBfM is the weakest of the 5 or so Deceased albums i own.

 

[Vilden]

Nice to see some Ved Buens Ende love! Even though I placed it quite abit lower. Kind of suprised that it is lacking in so many lists, I think it should be quite well liked around here? Guess the competition is too great. Anyway, great weird atmospheric and unique sounding album. The outro is one of the best outros ever made btw, get the chills every time it comes on. x)

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Elric of Melniboné, the guy who named himself for the Moorcock character, that we jokingly suspect to be Omni. Nocturno is great on Panzerfaust, the hell is wrong with his vocals?

oh that guy. Yeah i know, i was the first person to accuse her/him of being omni. Its pretty much the reasn i was banned that one time.
I clicked on the Omnibone name that NoCunts posted and it took me to a profile of a guy name Elric who has been here since 2001.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Panzerfaust is pretty bland, but not as bland as Written in Waters.

 

[Phylactery]

1. Nastrond - Toteslaut
2. Graveland - Thousand Swords
3. Abigor - Nachthymnen
4. Ulver -Bergtatt
5. Necromantia - Scarlet Evil, Witching Black
6.Vlad Tepes/Belketre - March to the Black Holocaust
7. Saint Vitus - Die Healing
8. Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane
9. Mutiilation - Vampires of Black Imperial Blood
10. Throne of Ahaz - Nifelheim

@EternalMetal indicated that he might do this earlier in the thread.

 

[Mort Divine]

Panzerfaust is pretty bland, but not as bland as Written in Waters.

go away